“The doctor told me that he’d never heard of anybody excited to get a bone marrow transplant.” https://t.co/frhgKZYwZ1

Diagnosed with aplastic anemia in 2012, Bryce Harding is back on track with life. In 2012, Bryce was working in a silver refinery. Friends had been telling him for months that he didn’t look well, but he resisted making an appointment with the doctor. After nearly passing out at work one strenuous day, he finally agreed that it was time for a checkup. Two days after that appointment, he got an urgent phone call from the doctor’s office. The message was stark -- get to the nearest hospital as quickly as possible. That hospital visit, where he was given four units of blood, was the first of many during Bryce’s fight with aplastic anemia. Bryce had never been sick much during his youth, so learning about aplastic anemia was new and unexpected territory. He saw many doctors and heard many opinions on how to battle aplastic anemia. Early on, he was misdiagnosed and also told he...